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Exciting news, safe2pee was selected to be a part of the upcoming MoMA exhibit “Design and the Elastic Mind.” If you are in New York between Febuary and May you should check it out! We are extremely thrilled about this and think it will be great exposure for the issue. More details will follow very soon.

we’ve launched a basic proximity search in both web and mobile flavors. If you’re looking for the nearest bathroom you no longer have to stumble around the site and look through a long list, you can just text us or fill out the simple form!

This is long overdue, but this evening we added the ability to create new entries by latitude and longitude. This should make it easier for people to add hard to find spots, university campuses, bathrooms in parks, etc. We’re working to put together further upgrades and broader international support. you will hear more from us soon.

We just added support for Mexico, so we’ve now got all of North America covered.

Sadly, almost simultaneously our database went down and is now reporting “too many connections.” I am not sure if it is just an intermittent failure or if we’re under attack or just received a huge spike in traffic! We’ll see soon, I hope we do not have to revert from back ups.

Great news! Safe2pee now features a whole slew of feeds. Play with our data in Google Earth, make a widget for your blog from our RSS feeds or crunch the numbers in a spreadsheet. See index and city pages for details. The Plain Text version should work fine on most mp3 players, phones, graphing calculators, and other small electronics … we will release a more encompassing version of our directory in this form soon.

I’ve always been a fan of numbers, and believe that stats can be very telling. here are a few of ours.

The basics:

6,000 – 30,000 Visitors a Month

685 Bathrooms

201 Unique Cities

50 Comments

7 Photos

We’re really happy with all of the contributions that we have received, but compared to the demand we’ve only made a small dent (so far). Keep those submissions coming! We especially need locations in small towns.

The number of cities people have requested bathrooms for: 1,490. That means we only have bathrooms for a little over 13% of the places where people requested them! Granted information for places like portland or san francisco are most often requested, the lack of info for many small locales is unfortunate. i’m ever so tempted to take a road trip and scout bathrooms in small town america…

Bathroom Breakdown

Type

Gender Free: 549 (~ 80%)

Gendered: 136 (~ 20%)

Access

Accessible: 407 (~ 60%)

Unknown or Not Accessible: 278 ( ~ 40%)

This stat was a little alarming too. I have suspicions that a lot of the not accessibles might also be bathrooms of unknown status. We’ve linked to the great info at PISSAR and would love ideas on how we could succinctly but more comprehensively express access considerations to folks. We’re working on some ways to make it so you can modify submission attributes, so hopefully that will allow people to investigate a bathroom further and update things!

Availability (Feature introduced long after launch)

Unknown or Not Set: 338 (~ 50%)

Stroll Right In: 191 (~ 28%)

Act like you know what you’re doing: 49 (~ 7%)

Sneak In: 26 (~ 4%)

Free if the right person is working: 10 (~ 1%)

Free if you flirt with Employees!: 6 ( < 1%)

You Should/Must buy something: 45 (~ 7%)

Pay Toilet: 3 ( < 1%)

ID or Admission required: 7 ( ~ 1%)

I think in all, it was a worthwhile effort to compile these numbers. it gives an interesting breakdown of where we are now and what we need to do to improve our service. enjoy.

we’ve changed our title from safe2pee, a gender neutral bathroom directory to safe2pee, bathrooms for everyone to better reflect the idea that gender-free bathrooms benefit everybody, not only those in the gender variant community.

it might take a while to update everything, but you should see this change reflected soon.